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Investigating the US and UK military industrial complexes as economic, climate and geopolitical threats. By @cmmonwealth.bsky.social and @cplusc.bsky.social.
The US and China have agreed to a one-year truce in their trade war. What lies behind this conflict and what does it mean for the world economy?

Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.

transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“Between 2012-22, BAE Systems received £36bn in UK government contracts — more than one fifth of its global revenue.”

BAE buys armour plating from Plasan, which has given the Israeli military both free equipment and a maintenance team during their genocidal assault on Gaza.
October 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Our interactive timeline showcasing historic instances of industrial conversion in the UK, US and continental Europe.
October 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
We pay billions every year to expand the military industry, yet jobs vanish & insecurity grows.
 
We could invest in real security: good jobs, green industry, thriving communities.
 
Our video investigates alternative futures for the military industry via the Clyde shipyards.
October 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
“The choice that [Zarah and Zack] should be making is a much more strategic one ... to look at a defence strategy that is actually about national defence, rather than about loyalty to the US.”

Our co-director Khem Rogaly on @novaramedia.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“Spain, for instance, resisted the military spending target. They asked for the climate crisis to be treated as a security threat ... their military [has] divisions that are focused entirely on disaster relief.”

Our co-director Khem Rogaly on @novaramedia.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“Militaries are a huge and hidden source of emissions.”
 
Our co-director Khem Rogaly on the relationship between militarisation and climate crisis for @novaramedia.com 👇
October 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🚨 We've just launched Transition Security Project — a new research centre investigating the UK & US military industrial complexes and rethinking security for a planet in crisis.

Explore our new website at the link below!

🔗 transitionsecurity.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“[The US] is not going to supersede China as a green industrial powerhouse, it's not going to defeat China as an economic, productive engine ... so [the US] is leaning into its military strength.”

Our co-director Khem Rogaly on @novaramedia.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“The Government don’t really have a plan of where they're going to get that money from ...

... They've just signed up to this GDP figure set as a kind of geopolitical posture by NATO rather than anything to do with military need.”

Our co-director Khem Rogaly on @novaramedia.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Today, we launch Transition Security Project — investigating the US and UK military industrial complexes, their political economy and the threats they pose to the climate transition.

Read our launch essay in full: transitionsecurity.org/transition-s...
October 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“Through collaboration and coordination with movements, politicians and journalists, Transition Security Project aims to help secure a safe global climate transition by paving the way towards new priorities for security.”
October 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“The same military establishments demanding support on the grounds of security are producing [global] instability in a quest for dominance.”
October 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“True security would require investment in health, care, housing, climate adaptation and the energy transition.”
October 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“The choice to pursue militarisation carries economic, environmental and geopolitical costs, each posing grave threats to human security.”
October 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“Rather than develop a green economy, European governments are expanding their war machines.”
October 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“As the planet burns, economic transformation is needed to avoid the destabilisation of life on earth.”
October 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🪖 Why is militarisation happening amid planetary crisis?

📈 What are the environmental, economic & geopolitical costs?

❓ What are the alternatives?

🔗 Read our launch essay, "Transition Security", by Khem Rogaly, @pmbigger.bsky.social and Lorah Steichen.

transitionsecurity.org/transition-s...
October 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Our co-director Khem Rogaly speaking now at The World Transformed’s panel “Against War, Against Militarism”, alongside @declassifieduk.org, STW UK, @ceobs.org & @codepink.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
🚨 ONLINE EVENT

Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.

Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social

📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
September 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM